Three boys from a soccer team who were rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand last month were granted Thai citizenship on Wednesday, authorities said. Ekapol and 12 boys had gone to explore the Tham Luang caves in Chiang Rai province on June 23, when a rainy-season downpour flooded the cave system and trapped them underground. Three of the boys and Ekapol were considered stateless, even though they were born in Thailand, until local authorities checked their qualifications, including birth certificates, and approved their requests for Thai citizenship.

A Kenyan court on Tuesday granted bail to Kenya Power chief executive Ken Tarus, his predecessor, Ben Chumo and other senior managers at the company who are charged with conspiring to commit an economic crime and abuse of office.

‘Late Show’ host Stephen Colbert said “(Trump) did the right thing” concerning Alice Marie Johnson, who’d been sentenced to life for cocaine trafficking, but worried “maybe he did the right thing for the wrong reason.”

A Canadian former hostage who has been charged with sexual assault, misleading police and making death threats after returning home from years in captivity in Afghanistan was granted bail Friday. Joshua Boyle, however, will be required to live with his parents in Smith Falls, near Ottawa, and under electronic monitoring. The court has banned the identification of Boyle’s alleged victims.

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and far-right League won more time on Monday to put together a government, amid suggestions they were struggling to agree on a prime minister to enact their big-spending policies.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department granted a visa to a man in Iran hoping to donate bone marrow to his U.S. citizen brother with blood cancer, obtaining a rare waiver to President Donald Trump’s travel ban, the family’s lawyer said on Thursday.